The Lord's Supper

As a Baptist I don't often get the opportunity to participate in more formal kinds of worship services. By that, I mean those services which serve the Lord's supper on a weekly basis. The most familiar of these formats of service to me are Catholic and Anglican. I've always just accepted my church's tradition of approximately every six weeks for this most solemn service as perfectly acceptable since the Bible is not specific concerning how often we should participate.

Lately however, I've been wondering if a more frequent serving of the Lord's Supper might be a means of strengthening the unity of our congregation. Following is a quote from an article that I found most interesting. Perhaps this is something those of who infrequently follow our Lord's command to "do this in remembrance" of Him might want to rethink.

[...]The apostle Paul [...] tells us that the Lord’s Supper signifies the oneness of the body of Christ (1 Cor. 10:17). According to Paul, “We, being many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.” When Christians gather to partake of the same bread and wine, there is no Jew or Gentile, there is no rich or poor, there is no male or female. All are one because all partake of the one body of Christ in the Lord’s Supper. If the faithful teaching of this truth accompanies the frequent observance of the Lord’s Supper, it inhibits division because it repeatedly and forcefully emphasizes the sinfulness of worshipping with an unforgiving heart (cf. Matt. 5:23-24). In fact, it is not beyond possibility that the infrequent observance and corresponding devaluing of this sacrament has contributed to the ongoing division and strife in the modern church. Again, we have to ask why any Christian would not want such a sign of Christian unity to be a part of the regular worship of the church.

Jesus Christ commands that the Lord’s Supper be observed in remembrance of him (Luke 22:19; cf 1 Cor. 11:24). This does not mean that the Lord’s Supper is merely a time for subjective mental recollection. It is a memorial of the saving acts of Jesus Christ by which he inaugurated the new covenant. In the Lord’s Supper, we do not merely recollect these great acts of redemption. We unite ourselves with the new covenant community for which they were accomplished. If the Lord’s Supper is truly to be observed in remembrance of Christ’s mighty saving acts, why would any Christian not want this remembrance to be a part of every Christian worship service?[...]

The entire article can be found here.